Chloroquine myopathy suggests that tau is degraded in lysosomes: Implication for the formation of paired helical filaments in Alzheimer's disease

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-8

  Oyama, Fumitaka ^a   Murakami, Nobuyuki ^b,c   Ihara, Yasuo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Chloroquine myopathy; Lysosome; Paired helical filaments; Rimmed vacuole; Tau

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MYOPATHY; PAIRED HELICAL FILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0031812256     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(98)00020-0     Document Type: Article

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